Goals: After reading through the material above, you should be able to address the following questions:
- What court can potential resolve any judicial conflict in the United States?
- What is a trial? What is an appeal? What is adjudication?
- What is the power of judicial review and why does it matter?
- Be familiar with the concept of common law and its origins.
- Be familiar with the concept of due process and its origins.
- What does due process attempt to accomplish? What is its purpose?
- How did British monarchs attempt to control the judicial process? Why might this be a problem?
- Be familiar with the issues associated with the Star Chamber.
- What impact did Magna Carta and the British Bill of Rights have on courts and court proceedings in Britain, and later the US?
- What grievances regarding the judiciary did the colonists detail in the Declaration of Independence?
- What is stare decisis and precedence? What do they tell us about court procedures?
- What makes the US Judiciary significantly different than the other branches on the national level?
- Why is an independent judiciary argued to be necessary? How is an independent judiciary established?
- What are public attitudes about the judiciary as opposed to the other branches?
- What checks does the judiciary have on the other branches? How is it checked by the other branches?
- What types of laws exist in the US and which take precedence over the others? Why?
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Goals: After reading through the material above, you should be able to address the following questions:
- What court can potential resolve any judicial conflict in the United States?
- What is a trial? What is an appeal? What is adjudication?
- What is the power of judicial review and why does it matter?
- Be familiar with the concept of common law and its origins.
- Be familiar with the concept of due process and its origins.
- What does due process attempt to accomplish? What is its purpose?
- How did British monarchs attempt to control the judicial process? Why might this be a problem?
- Be familiar with the issues associated with the Star Chamber.
- What impact did Magna Carta and the British Bill of Rights have on courts and court proceedings in Britain, and later the US?
- What grievances regarding the judiciary did the colonists detail in the Declaration of Independence?
- What is stare decisis and precedence? What do they tell us about court procedures?
- What makes the US Judiciary significantly different than the other branches on the national level?
- Why is an independent judiciary argued to be necessary? How is an independent judiciary established?
- What are public attitudes about the judiciary as opposed to the other branches?
- What checks does the judiciary have on the other branches? How is it checked by the other branches?
- What types of laws exist in the US and which take precedence over the others? Why?